A Maiden of 29

About the Author: Daya Bhat writes poetry in English and Kannada and translates books from Kannada to English. Her articles have appeared in The Times of India. Apart from writing, her interests include painting and listening to Indian classical music. She lives in Bangalore with her husband and daughter.

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Bristles twirl and swirl in colour in brights, in dulls then in inevitable greys there is grey so there is depth. Life stirs on my canvas colours flow from and to me; finding me from beneath all colours I have donned… they bathe in my true colours and trickle me on to the canvas drop by drop and in masterly strokes like no light ever did they reveal shades of the hypocrite in me whose existence was my discovery I stood exposed to the world and myself. Colours, they made me, they ask me “Did we paint you in the right colour?” My silence answers.